Incredible Meteorite Found With Hieroglyphics in 1908 - Canada

[rgray222]

I came across this story the other day and found it fascinating

This story was published by TW Patterson at the Conwichan Valley Citizen on Jan, 2015. The Cowichan Valley is a region around the Cowichan River and Cowichan Lake on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada.

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It was that a front-page newspaper article of Sept. 5, 1908, caught my attention. Entitled, A Message From Mars, it's so fascinating that it's worth quoting in its entirety: "Willie McKinnon, the 14 year old son of Mr. Angus McKinnon underwent a most startling experience and had a miraculous escape from death on last Thursday morning.

While working in his father's garden about half past 11 o'clock, a meteor about 10 inches in diameter was hurled through space and buried itself in the ground about eight feet from where the boy was standing.

The meteor could be heard from for several minutes before it struck the earth, but the lad, thinking it was a train passing, took no notice until the celestial visitor struck the earth, sending the rocks flying in every direction and causing an effect like an earthquake in that vicinity. The boy was naturally greatly alarmed at the occurrence and rushed into the house to acquaint his parents with the very strange happening. On visiting the spot it was found that the meteor was intensely hot, and not for over half an hour could it be handled.

The meteor or whatever it was that fell was almost as round as a marble and the surface was deeply scored with what resembled hieroglyphics.

The meteor had passed through the branches of two trees in its flight, snapping them off like matches. It fell at an angle of about 45 degrees and was travelling in a north-westerly direction when it struck the earth.

Mr. McKinnon has spent most of the time since the incident in trying to interpret the meaning of the markings on the stone and will be glad if someone who has a knowledge of these things, will try to help him out."

A month later, it was reported that the Dept. of Mines, Geological Survey, in Ottawa, was seeking "fuller particulars than those contained in the [Cowichan Leader] despatch: the time of day, the nature of the sounds emitted by the falling body, their duration and the direction from which they seemed to come, the depth of the hole and the nature of the soil as well as the direction in which the earth was thrown by the impact."

Quite an order for young Willie who must have been startled out of his wits at having escaped death by a mere eight feet. The questionnaire included an offer of purchase if terms could be arranged. Whether, in fact, this meteor did make it to Ottawa and public preservation, I can't say, alas, other than that it's a matter of record that Willie's father, Angus McKinnon, was known to be, at the very least, argumentative, and this suggests that negotiations would be challenging. As for the so-called hieroglyphics? Was it, in fact, a Rosetta Stone from Outer Space?

[Mutchie]

I wander just WHERE that object came from ? it is a very interesting story GOOD FIND

[ceetee9]

It appears this is now the second meteorite found with hieroglyphic writing (Stone Engraved with Hieroglyphics Falls from the Sky in 1865).

[Mutchie]

One in 1905 the other in 1908 this really makes YOU WANDER where they were coming from ?

And where are they NOW ? that would really interest ME to know because these types of objects DO NOT JUST FALL FROM THE SKY were they being fired here in the HOPE that contact could be made ?

Another thing i watched a video last night where Stephen Hawkings was saying we should be VERY CAREFUL about contacting

ANY ALIEN RACE ....Seems he thinks we could possibly end up being attacked !!!

[rgray222]

Posted by ceetee9 (here)
It appears this is now the second meteorite found with hieroglyphic writing (Stone Engraved with Hieroglyphics Falls from the Sky in 1865).

Pre-1900 UFO Cases

The James Lumley UFO Case October 1865 (Hieroglyphics)

The Wright Brothers may have been the first to put an machine into the sky, but people had been looking up at flying aircraft for decades before the brothers launched the first airplane.

Reports of UFOs were recorded in newspapers of the 19th century. Among the most famous was written in the St. Louis Democrat, Oct. 19, 1865. That article appeared two weeks later in The Cincinnati Commercial, bringing more public awareness to UFOs. The account was of an old Montana fir trapper by the name of James Lumley who saw a UFO fly over him and crash into the forest, exploding like a rocket. The story picked up by the Missouri Democrat and other newspapers, which contributed to national attention or awareness of alien spacecraft.

Most fur trappers may tell tales of Indians, or bears, or mountain lions, but Lumley's account of a flying saucer that crashed into Cadotte Pass was among the most explicit and remains a mystery to this day. It is said that debris from the crash may still be up there, but there has been no findings since. Nevertheless the story has remained one of the most mysterious of the 1800s.
Lumley was about 175 miles above the Upper Missouri in Great Falls Montana. He was on his way back to his camp site when he saw a "bright luminous body in the heavens." It went rapidly into an eastern direction and was plainly visible for about five seconds. As it flew Lumley saw it burst into an explosion in the sky and he later heard an explosion. It was shortly followed by a strong wind through the forest like a tornado, and the event left the air smelling like sulfur.

The next day, after walking two miles, he saw a path "several rods wide" made through the forest. He followed the path and discovered an object or rather a stone on the side of the mountain. What was unusual about this stone is that it had strange hieroglyphics and glass in it. Lumley felt the fragment he had found had come from an immense body and that the hieroglyphics must have been used for some purpose and made by human hands.

Thanks to Atlas for finding one of the newspaper articles.

http://www.newspapers.com/image/50599830/

[Atlas]

Posted by rgray222 (here)
This story was published by TW Patterson at the Conwichan Valley Citizen on Jan, 2015.

Here is the original article (click image for full size):



This article can be found in the January 7, 2015 edition of the Cowichan Valley Citizen here: http://issuu.com/cowichanvalleycitiz.../january_72015 (see page 11)

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The following article appeared in the Ladysmith-Chemainus Chronicle's first-ever year of publication, in 1908:

Message from Mars

Willie McKinnon, the fourteen year old son of Mr. Angus McKinnon underwent a most startling experience, and had a miraculous escape from death on last Thursday morning.

While working in his father's garden about half past eleven o'clock, a meteor about ten inches long was hurled through space and buried itself in the ground about eight feet from where the boy was standing.

The meteor could be heard coming for several minutes before it struck the earth, but the lad thinking it was a train passing, took no notice until the celestial visitor struck the earth, sending the rocks flying in every direction and causing an effect like an earthquake in that vicinity.

The boy was naturally greatly alarmed at the occurrence and rushed into the house to acquaint his parents with the very strange happening.

On visiting the spot it was found that the meteor was still intensely hot, and not for over half an hour could it be handled.

The meteor or whatever it was that fell looked much like an ordinary boulder except that it was almost as round as a marble and the surface was deeply scored with what resembled hieroglyphics.

The meteorite had passed through the branches of two trees in its flight snapping them off like matches.

It fell at an angle of about forty-five degrees and was traveling in a north-westerly direction when it struck the earth.

Mr. McKinnon has spent most of his time since the incident trying to interpret the meaning of the markings on the stone and will be glad if someone who has knowledge of these things will try and help him out.

(Source: http://www.meteorite-list-archives.c.../jul/0509.html)